Paper receptacle



(No Model.)

O. H.y HICKS. Y PAPER REGEPTAGLB.,

kPatented Apr; 17;

' UNITED STATES [PATENT Cervical-f l' p OLIVER H. HicKsoF. c HIoAGo,ILLINOIS.

PAPERV RE'CEPTACLE';

sPEcrr-ICATON forming parrot Letters Patent No. 381,1 salama April 17,1888,

Application sled rebmryais'es. sefiailuaeaasai. (No modem" To all whomit may concern:

` Be it known that I, OLIVER H. Bionda citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, n the countyof Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Ixnprovement in Paper'leceptacles, of whichfollowing is a specification. i

The object of my invention is to provide a receptacle formed of a singlesheet of paper or analogous material folded upon itself in aY mannerwhereby it may, withoutl augmenting the number of creases necessarilyproduced to form the receptacle, be readily adapted to assume the shapewhich will admit of its occucost of packing and shipping thereceptacles, v

and the provision of a receptacle which shall be readily convertiblefrom' the Ycondition to which it is reduced for shipment to its normalcondition. v p

In the drawings,Fig'ure -1 is a sheet of paper, creased, as illustratedby dotted lines, in a manner to form, when folded, the receptacle shownin Fig. 5. Figs. 2, 3, and 4 illustrate 4three convenient wayswhich myimprovement renders possible of folding the creased sheet for shipment.Fig. 5 shows in perspective the receptacle, whichmay be providedv withtwo bails, in the'positions shown by full lines, or, if desired, withone bail and separate securingfwires for thc corners, as shown by dottedlines; vand Fig. 6 shows in perspective the separate securingwires, asused with a single bail. y f

A is a single sheet of paper (though thin Wood, straw-board, cloth, orthelike may serve the purpose) creased to form ,the side portions g,side portions q', base p, and corner portions, 0 o', creased obliquelyand centrally, as shown fro permit the fomedsheet to 'be readilytransformed from the collapsed condition to' which it is reduced forpacking into a box or" receptacle,- it is necessary that the` cornerpor-V tions, lo o', be folded inward at the oblique creases w, wherebythe ends qfand q are raised tovertical positions.

The folds o of .thjecorners are then permanently secured to thesides g',and while this securing may beaccomplished by any suitable means, as bygluingor stitch-y,

ing, prefer to fasten bails n upon the receptacle, to answer the doublepurpose of a 0f securing the folds o and sides g'pto'gether.

The bails n are preferably, by reason of the springyquality therebyafforded, thou'ghnot`l necessarily, composed of wire, andare .by

preference two in number, having their ends passed through the sides gfandfolds o and bent tothe angles shown in Fig. 5. Where the sides q andfolds o are secured` together` .by othermeans than the ends of thebails, the

two bailsshown by full lines in Fig. 5 maybe supplanted'by a singlebail, n, in the position I v illustrated by dotted lines. Wires mafford, with th'e single-bail modification,y desirable means forsecuring the sides q and folds io together, and are for the purposepassed at opposite ends through the sides g andfolds o on opposite sides'of the box asindicatedbydot- 1 l ted'lines. Y p

I prefer to yplace the bails in position upon the folded lsheetsprevious torpacking them the-consumer without occasioning the trouble ofadjusting the bails. 'f f, y'

The sheets may be readily folded for packfor shipment, as the foldedsheets may thus beA readily converted into ynished receptacles by inginto the form shown in Fig. 2, wherein the sides g are folded towardeach other upon the base p, and the foldso and sides q'vfastenedtogether as before described; and, if desired,

the sides q may be V.turned up, as shown in l Fig, 4, to permit nestingfor shipment, or caused to overlap each other, as'shown in Fig.

3. In any case thearticle may be packedy in f its collapsed conditioninto a much smaller compass than if theshcets were formed into operativereceptacles, as showninFigQ. I

prefer to employ bails made of wire, on ac count of ,the additionalstability which they' give to the receptacle and the ease with whichthey yare applied, and von account of their springy quality, whereby'they materially asfy v sist in causing the collapsed articlegto assumeits normal conditionV of a'y receptacle, render; f'

60 y convenient means for carrying ,the same Qand f ing the conversionsubstantially automatic. When the bails are placed in operative positionupon the folded sheet before shipment, the sheets may be packed in thecondition shown in Fig. 2, wherein the positions of the bails areillustrated by dotted lines, or, if preferred, in either of the othercollapsed forms.

To change the folded sheet from any of the l conditions to which it isreduced for shipment,

as above described,into the complete operative receptacle illustrated inFig. 5, itis only necessary to turn the sides qoutward at right anglesto the base, which operation will necessarily, owing to the connectionbetween each corner fold o and the adjacent side q', cause the sides qto assume similar positions.

While it is necessary, as before stated, that folds of the corners besecured to the adjacent sides of the receptacle, it will be readilyunderstood that while I have only mentioned attaching the folds o andsides g together I do not limit myself to this precise construction, as,if desired, the sheet may be folded in a manner to make it preferable tosecure the folds and sides q together.

' When desired, a cover may be provided for the receptacle, of anyconvenient shape, and either integral with the folded sheet or separatetherefrom.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A receptacle formed of a single sheet of material folded upon itselfand creased and having the corner1 portions unsevered from the sheet andfolded inward, and having one fold only of each corner portion fastenedat two opposite sides, whereby the receptacle may be reduced to acollapsed condition without augmenting the number of creases necessarilyproduced to form the receptacle, substantially as and for the purposeset forth.

2. A receptacle formed of asingle sheet of material folded upon itselfand creased and having the corner portions unsevered from the sheet andfolded inward, and bails n, each passing at each end through one only ofthe folds and the adjacent sid e, whereby the receptacle may be reducedto a collapsed condition without augmenting the number of creasesnecessarily produced to form the receptacle, substantially as and forthe purpose setforth.

3. A collapsible receptacle comprising a single sheet of material foldedto produce the sides q and q', and corners provided with oblique creases:informing corner folds, o and o',

and folded inward, and spri1ig-bailsn,securing one fold only of eachcorner fold, o or o', to the adjacent sides, substantially as and forthe purpose set forth.

OLIVER H. HICKS.

In presence of- J. W. DYRENFORTH,

CHAs. E. GoRToN.

